Re: [Tails-dev] [Grml-devel] Shared screen locking solution …

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Autor: Michael Prokop
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A: Julien Jehannet
CC: Evgeni Golov, tails-dev, grml-devel
Assumpte: Re: [Tails-dev] [Grml-devel] Shared screen locking solution for live distributions in Debian
* Julien Jehannet [Fri Jan 02, 2015 at 04:19:10PM +0100]:
> 2015-01-02 13:41 GMT+01:00 Evgeni Golov <evgeni@???>:


> > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 11:20:35AM +0000, sajolida wrote:


> > > I've been investigating the screen locking mechanism of those various
> > > Debian based live distributions, and I found out that none of them had
> > > a real mechanism to do so. They either:


> > >   - Do not provide any screen locking mechanism (Knoppix, Grml,
> > >     Jondo Live).


> > Grml has grml-lock[1], you should have set a proper password before
> > using it, obviously ;)


grml-lock actually checks if a password is set and if that's not the
case then grml-lock prompts for setting one (to avoid locking
yourself out).

> FYI, note that Debian disabled the --new switch in vlock which limit now
> the desktop locking capability.


> Here is what you can read in the NEWS file:
>      vlock (2.2.2-4) unstable; urgency=medium
>        This update disables the new.so plugin and thus the --new switch,
> because it
>        proved too hard to fix it properly. See #702705.


> See also:
>     Debian Bug report logs - #702705
>     https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702705


Meh, how sad. Thanks for the pointer, Julien.

regards,
-mika-